[R] Possible or not possible: serif axis labels with plotmath [but everything else sans serif]?

[Hofert Jan Marius]

Dear Eik,

although possible in this case, tikzDevice is certainly not a general solution to all kinds of problems :-) I used it for quite some time before I gave up: I had a simple bar plot, the bars being black. This already caused errors like "TeX capacity exceeded" ... and I obtained these a lot. In fact, enlarging the TeX capacity (not trivial but possible) did not solve these issues. That's why I gave up on this package [although, clearly, the idea of full TeX support is totally appealing -- that's why I looked at the package in the first place].

Cheers,

Marius

On 2011-09-19, at 14:38 , Eik Vettorazzi wrote:

> Hi Jan Marius,
> using the tikzDevice-package, nearly everything is possible (at least,
> all what can be done in LaTeX).
> 
> cheers
> 
> Am 19.09.2011 11:58, schrieb Hofert Jan Marius:
>> Dear expeRts,
>> 
>> I it possible to have serif labels in the following plot?
>> 
>> x <- 1:10
>> y <- x
>> plot(x, y, type="b", xlab=expression(x[1]), ylab=expression(x[2]))
>> 
>> I know that one can use pdf(, family="serif"), but then also the axis tick marks 
>> are printed in serif font. Apart from the fact that it may not look nice, I'm 
>> just interested if one can have serif axis labels but everything else in sans serif
>> (default).
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Marius
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